Day 350 12-16-12

I wanted to send a pic while I had the church wifi still so this is a Christmas tree that was in the lobby of the science center on Thursday.

Day 349 12-15-12

Today we went to Levi Dean's double bass recital. This is the ceiling in the building where his recital was held.

Day 348 12-14-12

Today after institute we decorated cookies. I liked the flavor of the gingerbread cookies better than the sugar cookies. They just weren't sweet enough.

Day 347 12-13-12

I went with Barbara to see a free movie at the science center's Omnimax theater. I ran into my first college English professor afterward then Barbara and I went to Market Square and got some Mexican food at Las Velas. Here's a picture of my veggie enchiladas. There was a woman vomiting in the bathroom but otherwise a nice experience.

Day 346 12-12-12

Today I did nothing but worked since Tracy took off so today's picture is the new washing machine.

Day 345 12-11-12

Book club tonight at the library and Institute after. Today's picture is the stack of things that were waiting for me on the hold shelf.

Day 344 12-10-12

Today was the first meeting of a new singles FHE. We met for a lesson at the Wayments and then went to Phipps for the holiday lights show. There weren't tons of decorations, it was very understated with just poinsettias around. This is the English garden room. It's very popular for wedding pictures.

Day 343 12-9-12

Christmas overload. We had our ward Christmas musical program at church today. I skipped Relief Society to see Oakland ward's Christmas program. I would have stayed for 1st ward's but no one was practicing before church so I don't think they were having one. Then later tonight there was a stake musical program I got to sing three different songs in. Our Choir was first, then the last two numbers were the stake choir then combined choirs (ie anyone from a unit choir was welcome to join). I didn't take any pictures since it was church and I was singing so today's picture is some of my neighbor's decorations.

Day 342 12-8-12

I baked some cookies today to take to church for holiday hugs. There are florentines, peach jam thumbprints, and chocolate chip cookies.

Day 341 12-7-12

Ward Christmas party followed by Phase 10 at the Institute.

Day 340

Matthew got a deer yesterday. This is what she looked like before they butchered her. I'll spare you pictures of her being skinned and dismembered. :p

Day 339 12-5

Baklava!

Day 338

Today I tried once again to give Andy money for the washer (maybe that'll be tomorrow's picture) and the half dozen packages he's gotten in the mail but he once again left work before I got there. :( So I was in Oakland four hours too early for institute and decided I deserved some pizza to sooth my pain. I made a bad choice though, and I should have realized it when I almost immediately flipped it over off the counter at Pizza Hut. It was my own fault so I didn't let them make me a new one. It didn't look THAT bad, right? I'd already eaten the cheese off the lid before I took this picture.

The second evidence of what a bad choice it was is how absolutely terrible I felt all evening from eating too much pizza. I couldn't even stand to try Sister Neal's giant peanut butter chocolate chip cookies! I did eat a little salad hoping the lettuce would push the pizza along and end the pain. Now at 10 I'm not feelin too bad, which just means I'm stupid enough to try eating something else when I get home. :p It was very delicious though. :)

Day 337 12-3

This is one of the wreaths I made at the Souper Saturday on November 17th. It was pretty easy, not as time consuming as the other one I made, but I was a bit unsure of the hot glue and the burlap. I also wasn't sure how to go about embellishing it. Some people were making amazing arrangements of ornaments and evergreen and flowers. I wasn't really willing to commit to a season, I mean red could be Thanksgiving, right? Eh, whatever, it was a fun day of crafts, I could've done many more.

Day 336 12-2-12

Here's the new car Dad got to replace the 2003 Chevy Cavalier. I should have taken a picture of it before it got traded in for this on Friday. This is a dark gray 2012 Chevy Sonic. I haven't been in it yet, but someday...

Day 335

Okay, so I totally flaked on this for the last three months. I've taken enough pictures I'm sure I could fill in the days, but they wouldn't truly be pictures of the day they'd be assigned so we'll just have to accept my failure and hope to do better in the future. Maybe I'll get a camera for Christmas and then I'll have the cord and everything right there and I can take better pictures every day. We will see. I'll likely have to get it for myself.

Tonight I went to a free concert at St Stanislaus church in the Strip. It was a lovely chapel with many paintings on the ceiling and walls and lots of statues. I'd have enjoyed poking around more. Some of the statues were creepily life-like. If I go back again some day maybe someone can tell me what Bible verses or whatever the different scenes are based on. At the front of the chapel there was a crown and Jesus on the cross with angels on top of a building that I don't know the significance of but it was interesting to look at during the performance. Here is a blurry look at it. I cropped it to get rid of the audience heads and tried to get some more details to stand out. I should just confidently walk into churches to explore them. Most of them have full-time employees, right? I mean if the door is unlocked probably someone is there to answer questions. I don't want to intrude, but I bet people like talking about the history of their churches.